Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama XIV

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth. – Gandhi

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. – Dalai Lama XIV

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. – David Starr Jordan

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace. – Matthieu Ricard

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there’s anywhere to hide. – Pema ChödrönWe need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing. – Jack Kornfield

Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions. – Matthieu Ricard

If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion. – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Security is an illusion. Embrace groundless groundedness.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. – Confucius

Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment. – Matthieu Ricard

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. – Gandhi

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It’s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don’t have to try. – Peggy Noonan